From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: Shell quoting Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 12:31:14 -0700 Message-ID: <4329CC02.8090104@zytor.com> References: <43290BB8.90501@zytor.com> <7vy85yahjk.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <4329C11A.1040302@zytor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Junio C Hamano , Git Mailing List X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Sep 15 21:33:43 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EFzSS-0005g7-Rd for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 15 Sep 2005 21:31:45 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965271AbVIOTbm (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Sep 2005 15:31:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965272AbVIOTbm (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Sep 2005 15:31:42 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([209.128.68.124]:46558 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965271AbVIOTbl (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Sep 2005 15:31:41 -0400 Received: from [10.4.1.13] (yardgnome.orionmulti.com [209.128.68.65]) (authenticated bits=0) by terminus.zytor.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j8FJVIgv013337 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 15 Sep 2005 12:31:18 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050720) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: Linus Torvalds In-Reply-To: X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.86.2, clamav-milter version 0.86 on localhost X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.8 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.0.4 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.4 (2005-06-05) on terminus.zytor.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Does anybody really still use tcsh? It's a broken mess. > Yes. > Junio's "sq_quote()" works wonderfully on any valid shells. The fact that > tcsh expands ! even inside single quotes is just pure braindamage. > You could expand "sq_quote" to handle '!' and '\' characters the exact > same way it handles the single tick (end single-tick quoting, do \! or \\ > and start single-tick quoting again) and that might be good enough for > tcsh. It seems easier to just \-escape any special characters. -hpa